PhD student position in Virtual Production Systems at Chalmers University of Technology

Overview The Division of Production Systems within the Department of Product and Production Development announces a PhD position for the Virtual Production group. Our focus is on applied research in national and international projects. We cooperate closely with Industrial partners to validate and implement results for industrial benefits.

Job description As a PhD candidate you will work on development of virtual tools for analysis of Ecologic and Economic Impact through the complete lifecycle of industrial products. Flows simulation and environmental measures will be combined in order to include dynamic aspects in sustainability analyses. The tool development will enable companies to increase competitiveness by jointly improving sustainability and productivity.

Postdoc position Global Software Engineering at VU University Amsterdam

Overview VU University Amsterdam is one of the leading institutions for higher education in Europe. It is part of international science networks and collaborates with many major universities throughout the world. The Faculty of Sciences consists of four departments; Physics and Astronomy, Informatics, Mathematics and Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences with 600 employees including researchers, lecturers, full- and part-time professors. The faculty offers 10 bachelor and 12 master courses and has over 1600 students.

The candidate will be a member of the Software Engineering group, which has a long-standing tradition in software engineering research, covering areas such as software architecture, software process improvement, global software- and service engineering, and service oriented architecture. Research projects are always done in cooperation with external parties; the research questions are driven by practical problems. The candidate is expected to perform research in multi site coordination.

Overviwe We are looking for three PhD candidates at the AASS Learning Systems Lab of Örebro University, Sweden. The respective positions will address the following topics:

(1) Active 3D Perception for a Robot Unloading Containers

Research in this project can include fusion of visual and 3D range information (RGB-D sensing), feature-based object detection, concepts for active sensing, modelling shape deformations, and integration into a compact, semantic 3D world model. State-of-the-art range sensors are available for the work, including novel TOF cameras and, of course, the Kinect sensor.